People who change the world may, or may not, be famous in their own lifetimes. Often it takes years for others to understand forward-thinking contributions. This collection introduces you to some of the world's most-famous people
On the 21st of February, 1972, President Richard Nixon arrived in China.
Aboard the USS Panay, on the 12th of December 1937, was a Universal News cameraman who had covered World War I and was in China to report on the Japan...
Enoch ("Nucky") L. Johnson - called Nucky Thompson in the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" - was known as a kind of "Robin Hood" when he was "The Boss" o...
As the Kronstadt sailors stormed the Winter Palace, appropriating its considerable wine collection along the way, Lenin was consolidating his power ba...
During the Stalinist era, future-Nobel-Laureate Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner in a forced labor camp.
During 1995, South Africa's senior rugby officials devised a strategy to rally all the people behind the Springboks.
Susan B. Anthony did not live long enough to see American women voting in a national election.
As World War II was reaching an end, officials in the U.
On witnessing the first test of the atomic bomb, which he had helped to develop during his work with the Manhattan Project, Dr.
Fifty years after Hitler's death and Germany's surrender, the BBC rebroadcast the original news as it was delivered on May 2, 1945.
This hauntingly beautiful work for cello, composed by the great cello virtuoso Pablo Casals, is entitled "Song of the Birds.
Arising from a field of ruins on the Athenian Acropolis, a sacred hill, the Parthenon commemorated the city-states ultimate victory over the Persians ...
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